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We are an autonomous robot orchestration platform already live and operating in the logistics and delivery domain and can offer the stability of a well-funded, semi-governmental incubation with the speed, culture, and upside of a high-growth startup.
We aren’t looking for a specialized ticket solver. We need a high-agency engineer to own critical pieces of our stack (currently Kotlin/Spring/Postgres/AWS/Next).
You will thrive here if you value pragmatism over perfection and autonomy over oversight. You don't wait for tasks; you identify what needs to be built next to move the needle. You are comfortable working in a high-velocity environment where you define the roadmap, prioritize the work, and see it through.
I do this for writing, whether it's a book, an article or a D&D campaign. For me it's not about speed at all, it's the natural way my mind works and if I try to do this linear, line by line, I face blockades soon in the process.
I wouldn't recommend it either, it is a very simplistic view of coding with some bad advice intermingled. Obviously reality is much more complex than any book could describe and there is benefit to think about bad examples as well as good ones.
Though it is an ill-defined term clean (clear, readable, reasonable, understandable) code is important in the sense that accidental complexity should be minimized and encapsulated and necessary complexity should be understandable.
True, my uncle stayed his entire life and now got an insane amount for early retirement.
Myself on the other side worked 2 years as a software engineer and that's as much as I could taake:
* politics
* too many artificial restrictions
* worst management I've ever experienced
* Work doesn't get valued at all, cancelling so many projects and ideas amounting to nothing
* lower reputation than "real" engineers, they still don't
understand the value of software, like so many German companies, and treat us as necessary evil, which is also resulting in not competive salary
If you shut up and just come to work every day, you certainly "made it", but for me that's impossible.
Yep, I'm working at a Series B startup and I can tell you, you absolutely need SOC 2 or ISO and/or GDPR compliance based on your market. It's not optional, you will lose business if you don't.
The New Testament, or any book that explains the key themes. Even if you are not religious, Western societies are built around this. If you live in the West or do business with the West, it explains many explicit or implicit cultural norms.
If you want to go deeper in understanding the West, it's recommendable to also get a rough idea of it's philosophers, especially the Greeks and the important ones up to Kant, including Descartes' idea of the social contract.
If you still want to know more, you should read about the most important economic ideas, e.g. Smith, Keynes, Marx.
Why do software engineers tend to see themselves as machines with the necessity to be optimized for productivity or is this solely the cultural influence of American capitalism?
While I agree that it is a good idea to optimize chores, so you can focus on interesting issues, I often hit a wall of processes or humans.
One consequence, after a decade of professional work, is to actively dismiss the idea to optimize every part of my life. On the contrary, I value the time where I do nothing at all. It often allows me to clear my mind to be more creative afterwards.
So what I'm really missing, from this very basic article that does not provide any new information, is: Take your time off and do nothing.
We are an autonomous robot orchestration platform already live and operating in the logistics and delivery domain and can offer the stability of a well-funded, semi-governmental incubation with the speed, culture, and upside of a high-growth startup.
We aren’t looking for a specialized ticket solver. We need a high-agency engineer to own critical pieces of our stack (currently Kotlin/Spring/Postgres/AWS/Next).
You will thrive here if you value pragmatism over perfection and autonomy over oversight. You don't wait for tasks; you identify what needs to be built next to move the needle. You are comfortable working in a high-velocity environment where you define the roadmap, prioritize the work, and see it through.
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